Desert Aerospace has modified the two-seat TST-14J sailplane to accept the tiny jet engine. For takeoff, the jet engine sits directly behind the cockpit and allows the glider to climb at more than ...

Graham Saw, David Underwood, and Willy Hackett all came together from England just to meet other sailplane pilots and have a great time. This is Saw’s first time flying a glider in America.

WURTSBORO — There’s flying, and then there’s soaring. The sport of piloting a glider, or sailplane, is called soaring. With no engine, a glider pilot reads the clouds, the sky and the ...

On Thursday evenings and weekends, if you look at the sky over Middlefield in Geauga County, you may spot a sleek, silent aircraft soaring like a bird. It is not an airplane because it has no ...

Now a team of Microsoft researchers is leveraging the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to power sailplane gliders inspired by birds like hawks and eagles, that can fly without a motor.

A sailplane, also known as a glider plane is an aircraft with no engine. A sailplane is towed to altitude by an engine powered tow plane and then the pilot works to stay aloft flying the ...